Senior Manager - AI-Driven Video Production Studio

St. Joseph Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EFAP and health resources

Scholarship program for employees’...

Toronto Life Insider membership

Discounted GoodLife membership

Perkopolis employee program

Job summary

St. Joseph Corporation seeks a Senior Manager, Video Production to lead a multi-brand video team across Toronto Life, Maclean's, Chatelaine and HELLO! Canada. You will shape formats, stay hands-on, and drive AI-forward workflows while coordinating with editorial and commercial teams for standout content.

You’ll build a modern studio culture, mentor creators, manage budgets, and push bold ideas from concept to publication, ensuring editorial integrity and impact.

Qualifications

• Significant experience producing standout video across content, media, or agency environments, including leading creative people and complex productions.
• A portfolio that shows strong visual storytelling across formats, platforms and production styles.
• You’re still a maker: you can script, produce, direct, shoot and edit, and know what it takes to get great work out the door.
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Premiere and the broader video production ecosystem.
• A deep understanding of social and digital video and how audiences behave across platforms.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, freelancers, vendors and multiple productions at once.
• Genuine experience around AI and emerging technology, with the judgment to experiment without compromising editorial standards or audience trust.
• A collaborative, personable style: you build trust easily with everyone from creators and editors to clients and senior leaders.
• Comfortable with change: you enjoy solving problems and don’t need a perfect playbook before trying something new.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop our video creators, editors and interns, and build a collaborative, ambitious team culture.
• Come up with new formats and franchises, not just execute what's already working.
• Stay hands-on across production: concepting, scripting, directing, shooting and editing.
• Lead everything from quick-turn social videos to major editorial shoots, live productions, client campaigns and events.
• Partner with editorial, social and audience teams so video feels distinct to each brand.
• Use performance data to guide what we make next.
• Manage production schedules, team capacity and resources across multiple brands and projects.
• Build simple, effective workflows across ClickUp, Dropbox, Frame.io and our production tech stack.
• Source and manage freelancers, production partners and vendors.
• Use AI to speed up production and unlock creative ideas, turning what works into repeatable workflows and evaluating new tools by the results they deliver.
• Help the team learn and adopt new tools through practical training, always applying AI within our editorial standards and guidelines.
• Partner with our branded content and commercial teams on client programs and pitches, contributing creative ideas and shaping budget and scope.
• Develop video franchises and formats that attract audiences, advertisers and sponsors.
• Support major events and cultural moments, from festivals and red carpets to live activations.
• Find smart ways to capture once and create many things from it.

Skills

Video production leadership

Visual storytelling

Team coaching

AI in production

Budget management

Tools

Adobe Premiere

Frame.io

ClickUp

Dropbox

Job description

St. Joseph Corporation seeks a Senior Manager, Video Production to lead a multi-brand video team across Toronto Life, Maclean's, Chatelaine and HELLO! Canada. You will shape formats, stay hands-on, and drive AI-forward workflows while coordinating with editorial and commercial teams for standout content.

You’ll build a modern studio culture, mentor creators, manage budgets, and push bold ideas from concept to publication, ensuring editorial integrity and impact.